It was the Colorado Coalfield War Archaeological Project, with specific
excavations at the Ludlow strikers' tent colony. There are some articles in
Historical Archaeology and the edited volume "Archaeologies of the
Contemporary Past" The Colorado Historical Society has the project reports.
An edited volume dealing with the project is in publication and there is a
web site: http://www.du.edu/anthro/ludlow/project_000.html


Michael Jacobson
Project Director
Public Archaeology Facility
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Years ago there was something about an excavation in one of the strikers'
> tent villages up near one of the coal fields in Colorado (?), recently
> depicted (in part) in Pynchon's "Against the day"; someone here should
> remember
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> I am trying to compile a comparative study for a research design about
> an early 20th century hooverville (or shantytown
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